Facial expression recognition training for adults: A systematic review

Rebeschini, Carol; Moura, Tayse Conter de; Gerhardt, Bruna Cardoso; Arteche, Adriane Xavier

doi:10.24193/cbb.2019.23.06

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“…Comparing the training effects of the present study to those of other studies is difficult, as standardized effect sizes and experimental designs vary greatly among studies (Rebeschini et al, 2019). Yet, the present study has several advantages in regards to research design and methods, for example applying a randomized controlled mixed design that allows inferences of causality, increases statistical power and provides additional information about profiles of change.…”

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“…The fifth study concerned a micro expression recognition training for medical students and is discussed below (Endres and Laidlaw, 2009). In a systematic review about facial expression recognition training for adults, Rebeschini et al (2019) reviewed studies from the years 2013-2018 in which they found 26 articles about training programs for adults with psychopathologies, and nine articles about training for healthy adults (presented in the following). Huelle et al (2014) demonstrated that female participants significantly increased their ERA by watching and categorizing dynamic facial emotional displays and found consolidation of ERA in a second training session 2 days to several weeks after the first training.…”

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“…Finally, the multimodal training and outcome measure provide the opportunity to investigate the trainability of recognizing emotional expressions with varying valence and arousal levels. However, research suggests that practice with feedback is the most effective component for training ERA and interpersonal accuracy (Blanch-Hartigan, 2012;Blanch-Hartigan et al, 2012;Blanch-Hartigan and Ruben, 2013), and that there was no association between length of training and effectiveness (Blanch-Hartigan et al, 2012;Rebeschini et al, 2019). On the contrary, shorter trainings are likely preferable in terms of saving resources and upholding motivation.…”

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“…Most studies found positive effects for their respective ERA training, though publication bias could contribute to this finding. Rebeschini et al ( 2019 ) report 91.4% positive results and effect sizes varying from small to very large. Still, the existing studies about ERA training for healthy adult populations vary greatly in type of intervention and methodology, such as length and quality of training, individual or group administration, computer or other administration, or ERA facets trained (e.g., static facial emotional expressions, facial micro expressions, dynamic emotional expressions).…”

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“…Even though healthy adults are relatively accurate at recognizing others people's emotions, there are important individual differences in ERA, and low ERA is associated with personal and interpersonal drawbacks (see e.g., Hall et al, 2009 ; Schlegel et al, 2017 ). Emotion recognition training has been shown to improve ERA (for reviews, see e.g., Blanch-Hartigan and Ruben, 2013 ; Rebeschini et al, 2019 ), and first evidence even suggests positive real-life outcomes of ERA training (Schlegel, 2021 ). However, existing ERA trainings often suffer from limited ecological validity due to the predominant use of static facial items and other methodological limitations.…”

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Training Emotion Recognition Accuracy: Results for Multimodal Expressions and Facial Micro Expressions

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Nonverbal emotion recognition accuracy (ERA) is a central feature of successful communication and interaction, and is of importance for many professions. We developed and evaluated two ERA training programs—one focusing on dynamic multimodal expressions (audio, video, audio-video) and one focusing on facial micro expressions. Sixty-seven subjects were randomized to one of two experimental groups (multimodal, micro expression) or an active control group (emotional working memory task). Participants trained once weekly with a brief computerized training program for three consecutive weeks. Pre-post outcome measures consisted of a multimodal ERA task, a micro expression recognition task, and a task about patients' emotional cues. Post measurement took place approximately a week after the last training session. Non-parametric mixed analyses of variance using the Aligned Rank Transform were used to evaluate the effectiveness of the training programs. Results showed that multimodal training was significantly more effective in improving multimodal ERA compared to micro expression training or the control training; and the micro expression training was significantly more effective in improving micro expression ERA compared to the other two training conditions. Both pre-post effects can be interpreted as large. No group differences were found for the outcome measure about recognizing patients' emotion cues. There were no transfer effects of the training programs, meaning that participants only improved significantly for the specific facet of ERA that they had trained on. Further, low baseline ERA was associated with larger ERA improvements. Results are discussed with regard to methodological and conceptual aspects, and practical implications and future directions are explored.

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Emotion in Organizations: Theory and Research

Elfenbein

2023

Annu. Rev. Psychol.

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The workplace elicits a wide range of emotions, and likewise, emotions change our experience of the workplace. This article reviews the scientific field of emotion in organizations, drawing from classic theories and cutting-edge advances to integrate a disparate body of research. The review is organized around the definition of emotion as an unfolding sequence of processes: We interpret the world around us for its subjective meaning, which results in emotional experience. Emotional experience, in turn, has consequences for behaviors, attitudes, and cognition. Emotional experience also elicits expressive cues that can be recognized by others. Each process in the emotion sequence can be regulated. Processes can also iterate until emotion is shared throughout workgroups and even entire organizations. A distinct body of organizationally relevant research exists for each process, and emotional intelligence refers to effectiveness across all. Differences across culture and gender, future research directions, and practical implications are discussed. Expected final online publication date for the Annual Review of Psychology, Volume 74 is January 2023. Please see http://www.annualreviews.org/page/journal/pubdates for revised estimates.

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Trainee psychotherapists’ emotion recognition accuracy improves after training: emotion recognition training as a tool for psychotherapy education

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IntroductionPsychotherapists’ emotional and empathic competencies have a positive influence on psychotherapy outcome and alliance. However, it is doubtful whether psychotherapy education in itself leads to improvements in trainee psychotherapists’ emotion recognition accuracy (ERA), which is an essential part of these competencies.MethodsIn a randomized, controlled, double-blind study (N = 68), we trained trainee psychotherapists (57% psychodynamic therapy and 43% cognitive behavioral therapy) to detect non-verbal emotional expressions in others using standardized computerized trainings – one for multimodal emotion recognition accuracy and one for micro expression recognition accuracy – and compared their results to an active control group one week after the training (n = 60) and at the one-year follow up (n = 55). The participants trained once weekly during a three-week period. As outcome measures, we used a multimodal emotion recognition accuracy task, a micro expression recognition accuracy task and an emotion recognition accuracy task for verbal and non-verbal (combined) emotional expressions in medical settings.ResultsThe results of mixed multilevel analyses suggest that the multimodal emotion recognition accuracy training led to significantly steeper increases than the other two conditions from pretest to the posttest one week after the last training session. When comparing the pretest to follow-up differences in slopes, the superiority of the multimodal training group was still detectable in the unimodal audio modality and the unimodal video modality (in comparison to the control training group), but not when considering the multimodal audio-video modality or the total score of the multimodal emotion recognition accuracy measure. The micro expression training group showed a significantly steeper change trajectory from pretest to posttest compared to the control training group, but not compared to the multimodal training group. However, the effect vanished again until the one-year follow-up. There were no differences in change trajectories for the outcome measure about emotion recognition accuracy in medical settings.DiscussionWe conclude that trainee psychotherapists’ emotion recognition accuracy can be effectively trained, especially multimodal emotion recognition accuracy, and suggest that the changes in unimodal emotion recognition accuracy (audio-only and video-only) are long-lasting. Implications of these findings for the psychotherapy education are discussed.

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Facial expression recognition training for adults: A systematic review

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Training Emotion Recognition Accuracy: Results for Multimodal Expressions and Facial Micro Expressions

Training Emotion Recognition Accuracy: Results for Multimodal Expressions and Facial Micro Expressions

Emotion in Organizations: Theory and Research

Trainee psychotherapists’ emotion recognition accuracy improves after training: emotion recognition training as a tool for psychotherapy education

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